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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809275603321

Autore

Piorkowski Geraldine K

Titolo

Adult children of divorce : confused love seekers / / Geraldine K. Piorkowski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger Publishers, , 2008

London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), , 2024

ISBN

979-84-00-60704-2

1-282-42047-X

9786612420474

0-313-34601-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Disciplina

155.9/24

Soggetti

Adult children of divorced parents - Family relationships

Adult children of divorced parents - Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The fragility of love -- Which love is love? -- Love's poor choices -- The fears and risks of love -- Too few cultural alternatives to love -- Role models of romantic love in popular culture -- Love by arrangement -- Love marriages around the world -- Lost in the land of married love.

Sommario/riassunto

Romantic love is often an elusive, fragile, and tenuous state, difficult to maintain across time. The rates of divorce, re-divorce, relationship violence, and abuse today attest to the face we are failing at romantic love. And for teen-aged and adult children of divorce, romantic love can be especially elusive. Because they have no roadmap for a satisfying, stable romatic relationship derived from their own parents, they are confused by what love is and tend to make poor partner choices. Borrowing heavily from popular culture for unrealistic standards regarding love, they become disillusioned